Numerous lawsuits have been and are being filed against Monsanto, a large agrochemical giant, for the alleged harm their herbicide Roundup Weed and Grass Killer has caused to its users. For many years now, it has been suspected that glyphosate, a chemical in the poison, was carcinogenic. Bayer, which owns Monsanto, has denied all along the alleged claims of these cancer victims against its flagship product. Recently a jury in San Francisco awarded a man [...]

Manufacturers of baby high chairs will now have to conform to a revised set of standards for their design. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has recently issued a new federal standard aimed at enhancing the safety of all high chairs. The standards cover high chairs designed for home use as well as restaurant use. In putting together the new CPSC standards, the Commission analyzed the existing voluntary high chair recommendations provided by ASTM [...]

Individuals who have had open chest surgery in the past five years at be at risk for a deadly bacterium from a defective type of heater-cooler device (HCD) used in surgery. There is a specific model of HCD, the Stockert LivaNova 3T heater-cooler device, which is manufactured in Germany and is used in about 60% (about 250,000 surgeries) of open heart bypass surgeries performed in the United States each year, according to a Health Alert [...]

Chicken soup is perfect for cold winter days, but consumers of MOM’S CHICKEN SOUP may have been in for a surprise this January when they opened their cans to discover Italian wedding soup with meatballs instead of the chicken, veggies and noodles they were anticipating. On January 12, 2017, Kettle Cuisine, the maker of both products, recalled almost 3,100 pounds of their chicken soup because of mislabeling. The Food & Drug Administration issued a recall [...]